XRP and Stellar are scams... Do your research please.

See: https://youtu.be/mQKxSVLLfAk

video contains sources and covers the following paper:
https://github.com/petertodd/ripple-consensus-analysis-paper/blob/master/paper.pdf

or is everyone completely ignoring history​?

The XRP token was added as a complete afterthought so Ripple Labs could make money. In doing so they neglected to address primitive attack vectors on this blockchain. Ripple could work entirely without the XRP token, it serves no purpose otherwise.

XRP is centralized whether you want to acknowledge it or not.

I also suspect that Stellar is simply getting pumped artificially.